Welcome to the Free Birth Podcast, a supportive space for people who are learning, exploring, and celebrating their autonomous choices in childbirth.

Together, we'll unpack truths, share personal stories, and claim our ability to birth freely and intuitively.

Here's your host, Emily Saldane.

There are lots of different ways to interact with free birth society and our work in the world. We have our flagship course, The Complete Guide to Free Birth, which is an incredible online course jam-packed with everything we think one would want to know to feel confident to

birth in their power. We also recently released a companion course full of meditations,

sacred rituals, and journaling prompts to support in releasing fear and tuning in to your ancient

womb wisdom. We of course have our private membership if you're looking for a community of

like-minded, radical and wild women, and you can apply for that on our website. We offer personalized

one-on-one transformational coaching with a focus on learning the tools to move out of victim

consciousness and into self-responsibility, which is, quite frankly, freedom.

And it's worth mentioning that if you've been drooling over our mother-loven retreat in Dominican

Republic this coming February, we do have a few spots left open, and you should totally

come join us in a magical week in paradise. Find out more about all of this on our website,

freebirthsociety.com.

If you know me or follow me, you know that I am obsessed with the book Everything Below the Waste, Why Healthcare Needs a Feminist Revolution.

The author is Jennifer Block, and I am happy to say she's on the show today.

You may know of her from her previous book, Pushed, which rocked the worlds of birth workers

and parents alike.

Everything below the waist is a continuation of the work she did and pushed and is now

broadening the conversation into all elements of female health care.

Thank you. into all elements of female health care. Yeah, I'd like to just back up a little bit and ask you where the impetus for this book

came, on the one hand, it feels kind of obvious because it was such a

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